Claudia Octavia (b. c. AD 42, d. AD 62)

Octavia was the daughter of Claudius and Messalina. In AD 53 she married Nero, who could not stand her (Tacitus, Annals 13.12). In AD 62 Nero divorced her on the pretext of barrenness and married Poppaea. The people took to the streets in her defense, but the emperor used troops. Octavia was exiled to an island and killed a few days later (Annals 14.60–64). Tacitus writes that she was in her twentieth year.